Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Of course if "improving the Metropolitan highway situation" simply means building more highways, then any addition to the system constitutes progress. But to expand is not necessarily to improve, for the construction of new roads like the Inner Belt may well add to a city's transportation problems in the...
Died. Millard Evelyn ("Glad") Tydings, 70, whose acid tongue, during his 35 years as a Maryland state representative, U.S. Congressman and four-term Senator, made him enemies ranging from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe McCarthy; of pneumonia; on his 550-acre Oakington estate near Havre de Grace, Md. A maverick Democratic...
The Congo's Thomas Kanza, representative of the Gizenga government at the United Nations and the only man to survive Kasavubu's purge of the Lumumba cabinet, will speak in the Quincy House dining room at 8 p.m. tonight.
The Kennedy rebels wanted to purge Mississippi's William Colmer from the committee and replace him with a Rayburn man. Colmer seemed fair game since he had supported the independent presidential-elector slate in Mississippi rather than Kennedy-Johnson". Rayburn vacillated between the purge and his three-new-member...
The result was a bad crop two years in a row, with grain production in 1959 and 1960 running at about 190 million tons, v. a 1960 goal of 297 million. As a cornerstone of the plan for 1961, Peking called for a purge of what it called "landlord and...